Courtney Love says Taylor Swift is ‘not interesting as an artist’

Courtney Love is not a Swiftie.

The Hole singer sat down for an interview with a British publication The standard recently, where she revealed which female artists she likes (Patti Smith, Nina Simone, PJ Harvey and Debbie Harry) and which ones she doesn’t, led by Taylor Swift.

“Taylor is not important. She may be a safe space for girls, and she’s probably the Madonna of the moment, but she’s not interesting as an artist,” Love told the outlet, before adding that she had enough of Coachella 2024 headliner Lana Del Rey. “I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she really should take seven years off,” she said. “Until ‘Take Me Home Country Roads,’ I thought she was great. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to it because it influenced me too much.

Finally, Love said she wasn’t a fan of Madonna either. “I don’t like her and she doesn’t like me. I loved I’m desperately looking for Susanbut for the city of New York as much as it,” she said.

Although Love is quick to criticize women she doesn’t like, she also has a history of defending women in music. In March 2023, the 59-year-old rocker wrote an editorial for the Guardian taking aim at the lack of female representation in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The piece, titled “Why Are Women So Marginalized by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?” “, opens with Love describing his lifelong obsession with rock n’ roll, stating: “I got into this business to write good songs and have fun. .”

Love said the 2023 nominations were yet another reminder “of how extraordinary a woman has to be to get into the old boys’ club”, noting that more women have been nominated this year than at any other time in the 40 years of history of the organization. This group included Kate Bush, Cyndi Lauper, Sheryl Crow and Missy Elliott, as well as White Stripes drummer Meg White and New Order keyboardist Gillian Gilbert.

“If the Rock Hall is unwilling to examine how it reproduces the violence of structural racism and sexism that artists face in the music industry, if it cannot properly honor what visionary female artists created, innovated, revolutionized and contributed to the popularity of music – well, then let it go to hell in a handbag,” Love concluded.